An Act of Common Councill of the City of London, (made in the first and second years of the reign of Philip and Mary) for retrenching of the expenses of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, etc.
Then theretrenching is to be the elimination of the fifteen-dollar-a-week professional reader, who needs the work and earns the money, and two courses from our already aldermanic meals?
That was retrenchingmany virtues, and the best ones.
But this is retrenching precisely those of our duties that most surely guarantee the exercise of all the rest.
This attitude led Caesar to resolve on leaving twenty cohorts under arms, and on tracing a camp on this spot, and retrenching it.
Out of the undigested mass, by retrenching here, adding there, classifying and explaining, this man collected a fund of real learning.
The retrenching of the mere law will entirely advantage the general sale of the work besides greatly reducing the expense, and in either point of view it will make it a speculation more like to be advantageous.
The idea of retrenching the law cases, which originates with Thomson, promises, if you entertain it, to remove the only possible objection to the publication, namely the great expense.
He made extracts from the existing law, preserving the old words, and merely cutting out repetitions, removing contradictions, retrenching superfluities, so as immensely to reduce the bulk of the whole.
Now, all these different operations must continually form new strata, elevate the beds of earth, gradually raising downs and hills, retrenching the bounds of the ocean, and by that means extending the lands on the continents.
I must take the liberty to observe, that the sum is very large, and such as cannot be advanced without greatly retrenching from essential services, at least in the present moment.
However, I submitted to it, without retrenching any part of my charities.
We continued to meet with loss after loss, the king retrenching a considerable share of our revenues, besides great sums of money, which we lost by L'Hotel de Ville.
But all these expedients proved insufficient to supply the king's necessities; even though he began to enter into some schemes for retrenching his expenses.
Perhaps you are revising the piece, and, after retrenching certain passages, intend to send your Cato into the world, I will not say improved, but certainly less obnoxious.
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